Where is the best cutting-edge research for the textile and clothing industry?

Where is the best cutting-edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector? Where are the brightest and best academics, research institutes, private companies, innovation networks and other sources of new technology, design, marketing and manufacturing innovation? Also, what intellectual property issues have to be negotiated in different countries? This month, just-style has asked the experts and presents its findings here.